Searching for Planets in the Hyades. I. The Keck Radial Velocity Survey

Abstract

We describe a high-precision radial velocity search for jovian-mass companions to main sequence stars in the Hyades star cluster. The Hyades provides an extremely well controlled sample of stars of the same age, the same metallicity, and a common birth and early dynamical environment. This sample allows us to explore the dependence of the process of planet formation on only a single independent variable: the stellar mass. In this paper we describe the survey and summarize results for the first five years.

8 pages, 3 figures; To appear in the July 2002 issue of The Astronomical Journal

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